* Art and the spectacle, early photography and film
* Christine prepared a list of references and suggested readings from our first class:
Alienation/mass culture
Texts:
Michel Foucault: Discipline and Punish, 1975
Gilles Deleuze: Society of control, essay in l' autre Journal, 1991
Guy Debord: The society of spectacle, Zone Books
Edgar Allan Poe: The man of the crowd, Burton 's Gentlemen Magazine,1840
Charles Beaudelaire: Flowers of Evil, published by Wesleyan university press
Walter Benjamin:The Arcades Project, edited by Rolf Tiedemann
Films:
The electric House, Buster keaton (1922), Metropolis, Fritz Lang (1926), Modern Time, Charlie Chaplin (1936)
Camera Obscura
Texts:
Theories of vision from Al kindi to Kepler , David C lindberg (Chicago university of Chicago press, 1976)
Aristotle De Anima, Oxford University Press Inc, New York, reprinted 2002
In basic the works of Aristotle, Richard McKeon (New york, random house, 1966)
John Baptista (1545-1615) , Natural magik (1658) (new york: basic books, 1957)
Lantern Magica
Etienne-Gaspard Robertson, Born in Lige, Belgium (1763 /1837). EarlyPhantasmagoria showman
Texts:
Tom Cunning Illusion Past and future:The phantasmagoria and its specters
Afternoon
* Artist presentation dates assigned
* Intro to shops, hand tools, protocol, safety, etc.
Wood shop (3rd floor) hours:
Metal shop (5th floor) hours:
Electronics shop (room 324) is 24 hour access
Assignment: Do something, anything, in the shops. You will show us what you did next week.